[slurm-users] Limit number of CPU in a partition

[Nicolò Parmiggiani]

Hi,

can someone help me? How can I limit the maximum number of CPUs that a
partition can use.

Thank You.

2018-01-02 18:28 GMT+01:00 Nicolò Parmiggiani <nicolo.parmiggiani at gmail.com>
:

> I have only one server and two data analysis pipelines, one for standard
> jobs and other one for high priority job that can be triggered sometimes.
>
> My first solution was to split the CPU of the server in two partition, one
> for each pipeline.
>
> A more complex (but i suppose better) solution could be to use one
> partition and manage the priority of the two pipeline and when i get jobs
> from high priority pipeline those jobs must start immediately, temporarily
> blocking standard jobs.
>
> What solution do you recommend? And how can I implement it?
>
> Thank You.
>
> 2018-01-02 13:33 GMT+01:00 Ole Holm Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk>:
>
>> On 01/02/2018 12:59 PM, Nicolò Parmiggiani wrote:
>>
>>> My problem is that i have for instance 100 CPU, and i want to create two
>>> partition each with 50 CPU maximum usage. In this way i can submit job to
>>> both partitions independently.
>>>
>>
>> I wonder what you really want to achieve?  Why do you want to divide your
>> 100 CPUs (nodes or CPU cores?) into 2 partitions?  The queue will be much
>> more flexible if identical nodes constitute 1 partition.
>>
>> If you really insist on splitting up your nodes into 2 partitions, you
>> can configure that in slurm.conf, for example with 100 nodes named
>> a001..a100:
>>
>> PartitionName=partition1 Nodes=a[001-050]
>> PartitionName=partition2 Nodes=a[051-100]
>>
>> If you wish, you can look at my Slurm Wiki pages for inspiration:
>> https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/SLURM
>> https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_configuration
>>
>> 2018-01-02 11:29 GMT+01:00 Nicolò Parmiggiani <
>>> nicolo.parmiggiani at gmail.com <mailto:nicolo.parmiggiani at gmail.com>>:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     how can i limit the number of CPU that a partition can use?
>>>
>>>     For instance when a partition reach its maximum CPUs number you can
>>>     submit new job but they are put in queue.
>>>
>>
>> /Ole
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